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Samuel Pepys was a hugely able man — founder of the administration of the Royal English navy, Governor of Christ’s Hospital, Member of Parliament and friend of many of the great men of his day. He was also a member and a President of the Royal Society, taking part in its weekly meetings with huge enjoyment and enrichment of his knowledge of the world about him. But he is most famous for being one of the worlds world’s great diarists.

Susannah will talk about Pepys’ extraordinary library, now housed at Magdalen College, Cambridge, his passion for buying books, his contribution to the arts and sciences of his day, and his part in the burgeoning Enlightenment. She will also tell the incredible story of his Diary, writing that shared unique insight into life at the time, and contained eyewitness accounts of historical events, such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London, and how it finally came to be published.